Thurber Quotes
7 quotes by 7 authors
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Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets…
— Harlan Cleveland
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I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I…
— Shel Silverstein
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his…
— Lynne Truss
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It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought…
— James Thurber
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or…
— Leo Rosten
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Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and…
— John Scalzi
Who Wrote These Thurber Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 7 Thurber Quotes as follows: